You already know most of the grammar rules. You just don't catch your own slips.
The Editing Engine is not another grammar course. It's a self-editing system. Twelve days of building the metacognitive habit of catching your own mistakes during writing — plus your personal Writing Fingerprint and an error log that becomes the foundation for further work.
If this sounds like you
The problem this module fixes:
"I can pass a grammar test on paper. But when I'm actually writing — focused on content, vocabulary, structure, the clock — the same mistakes keep slipping in. I know the rules. I just can't catch myself making the errors. By the time I finish the essay, I have no time left to find them."
Your Writing Fingerprint
Day 1 starts with a diagnostic. You write a 200-300 word paragraph and the AI Coach produces your personal Writing Fingerprint — six ratings across the patterns that cost Band 6 writers the most marks. Every day of the module is then anchored to your specific result. No two students follow the same path through this module.
Who this is for
Band 6 writers who keep losing marks they shouldn't.
This module is for the Band 5.5-6.5 writer who has strong ideas, decent vocabulary, and a working grasp of grammar rules — but keeps slipping on small accuracy issues under exam pressure. Tense breaks. Subject-verb mismatches in long sentences. Articles dropped in front of abstract nouns. Prepositions that "feel wrong" but you don't know why.
Higher-level students benefit too. The most common Band 6.5 → 7 failure isn't unknown grammar — it's grammar that slips when you're writing under timed conditions. The Editing Engine builds the noticing habit that catches errors before the examiner does.
If your grammar is genuinely shaky at Band 5 or below, you'll move faster through this module after working with a teacher on the underlying rules first. The Day 1 diagnostic will tell you honestly which patterns are "Wobbly" enough to benefit from one-on-one support.
Day structure
The same pattern on every day.
Each day has four pages. About 45-60 minutes total. By Day 12, you have six edit protocols you can run in 90 seconds total — and your personal error profile.
LEARN
Introduces the day's edit pass — a 30-second self-check protocol for one specific error type.
PRACTICE
H5P drills for noticing the day's error type in other writers' work — pattern recognition first.
APPLY
You write a paragraph and run the protocol on it. The Coach logs each catch in your error log.
REFLECT
Structured log entries captured from your work. Your personal error profile builds across the module.
The curriculum
What you'll cover, day by day.
Four clusters across twelve days. Each cluster adds one or two named self-editing protocols. By Day 12, you have six protocols and a personal profile.
Fingerprint and verb tense
Diagnostic + the most common Band 6 slipYour Writing Fingerprint
The diagnostic. Six ratings, six personalised notes, your personal roadmap for the module.
Why your verbs slip out of past tense
The Verb Tense Edit Pass. Three steps, 30 seconds, catches the most common Band 6 slip.
Why your verbs slip in longer stories
Longer paragraphs, mixed tense cases — past simple, past perfect, reported speech.
Subject-verb agreement
Where most slips actually happenWhy your subjects and verbs don't match
The SV Agreement Edit Pass. Find the subject, find the verb, check the match.
Why long sentences trip you up
Harder cases — "either/or," "neither/nor," collective nouns, intervening clauses.
Articles
Three days because articles are the hardestWhen to use "a," "the," or nothing
Countable vs uncountable, specific vs generic. The cases where rules apply cleanly.
Articles with words like "education" and "freedom"
"Education is important." "The education system." The cases that confuse most Band 6 writers.
Articles that just sound wrong
Long paragraphs, mixed reference, the ear-based "does this sound right" judgment.
Prepositions, form, and personal profile
Final protocols and the Day 12 capstoneWhy "in," "on," and "at" keep fighting you
in/on/at, of/from, by/with. The patterns that show up most in Band 6 writing.
When verbs need the right preposition
Depend on, agree with, consist of — the genuinely idiomatic pairs.
When your sentences look off
Right form for the job. Run-ons, comma splices, sentence-shape check.
Your personal self-editing system
Review your error log. Build your personal protocol order. Take it with you.
After 12 days
What you'll actually be able to do.
Specific, concrete things — not vague promises about "better writing."
Build the self-editing system, in twelve days.
One-time purchase. No subscription. Six self-editing protocols, your personal Writing Fingerprint, and an error log you'll keep using long after the module ends. Email Sean to buy — payment details for your region will be in the reply.
Related modules
W1 is the foundation. The Writing System builds on it.
The error log you build in W1 carries directly into W2 essays and W3 Task 1 work. Students who do W1 first get more out of the other two modules — they're already noticing their own slips by the time they reach the harder material.